A CONVICTED killer and paedophile has been jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 37 years before having any chance of parole after being found guilty of raping and murdering two teenage girls in the 1970s.

PUBLISHED: 18:40, Fri, Nov 14, 2014

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Angus Sinclair was convicted of the rape and murder of both Christine Eadie and Helen Scott

Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both 17, were brutally killed after a night-out at Edinburgh’s World’s End pub on October 15 1977, with their bodies discovered the following day in East Lothian.

They had been bound and strangled with their own underwear.

Dangerous predator who is capable of sinking to the depths of depravity

Judge Lord Matthews

Angus Sinclair, 69, was convicted today of the rape and murder of both girls after a trial at the High Court in Livingston lasting five weeks.

Judge Lord Matthews told him he was “a dangerous predator who is capable of sinking to the depths of depravity”.

The prosecution is the first under changes to Scotland’s double jeopardy law which meant he could be retried for their murders after the court case against him collapsed seven years ago.

Sinclair, a serial rapist who has been in jail for more than 30 years, was convicted of carrying out the attacks with his brother-in-law Gordon Hamilton, who died in 1996.

The jury of nine women and six men took less than two-and-a-half hours to convict Sinclair unanimously of both charges.